The quantification of money awards for breach of contract is a topic of both significant theoretical interest and immense practical importance. In the UK, recent debates have ranged from the availability of gain-based awards to the theoretical basis for principles of remoteness and mitigation. While these and other important issues - such as the recovery of compensation for non-pecuniary loss - are touched upon in this book, the principal objective is to challenge the orthodox understanding of the expectation principle, as famously laid down by Parke B in England's historic Robinson v Harman....